Some Shakers also forbade the eating of meat. They rejected marriage and believed in a life of total celibacy. They did not consider baptism by water essential. Some of the beliefs of the Shakers were that Christ’s Second Coming had already occurred and that He had appeared in the form of a woman, Ann Lee.
Leman Copley had embraced the gospel but still held to some of the teachings of the Shakers (United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing), to which he had formerly belonged.
Pratt, and Leman Copley, at Kirtland, Ohio, May 7, 1831. Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to Sidney Rigdon, Parley P.
